Back to School

This is the first time I've ever been able to say that... "back to school."

Today is Calder's first day back.  First grade.  And such a different start compared to last year, all confidence and knowing.  He's quite a guy.

There's also tons of things I'd like to lay down here about how we've spent our last weeks of real summer - our first summer sandwiched between school years.  I hope to do the time warp and take this journal backwards.  We've had such great experiences, I can't imagine not sharing our annual campout at Waldo Lake and stories of last weekend's 3-day float on the Willamette.  I'll try to get to all this soon.

But for today we have the boy and his little brother... just right.